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Leonardo's anatomical drawings

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Secrets of the Dead

Leonardo's anatomical drawings

Season 16 Episode 5

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First sign of Leonardo's actual practical involvement in anatomy and dissection is some wonderful, slightly eerie drawings of a skull, dateable to about 1489. Leonardo’s illustrations, as precise as his technical drawings of machines, were unequalled in accuracy until the photographic techniques of the 19th century.